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    Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

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    I'm trying to get an old PC working with a sata hard disk as I have no pata ones spare so I bought a sata controller card (Sil 3512 chipset), installed it in the PCI slot, connected things up and booted the PC. It comes up after post with a screen prompting me to press something to enter raid set up which is just building arrays which i dont need, proceed to boot from windows CD, loads up, when it comes to install the drivers though it can't find them unless I untick 'hide drivers not compatible with this computers hardware' and then after trying to install them it still doesn't see the hard drive.

    I can't get my head round it. The hard drive is definately seen by the controller as it indicates as much in the bios, and the driver is definately the right one and says on silicons website it supports windows, but when trying to put it all together windows (vista) cant see the hard drive.

    I tried it on an old slipstreamed 'ultra' version of XP a friend lent me about two years ago which has every driver for everything on and it can see the hard drive in the install screen but then when it tries to write to the partition it comes up with an error.

    Any suggestions would be great. Got ubuntu 8.04 .iso 93% downloaded so see if I have more luck with that though I am loathing trying to install sims 2!
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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    Have you grabbed the latest Vista drivers for the card from Silicon Image's website, then loaded those drivers when prompted?

    Vista will see the card & drive, but can't interface with it. I just did the samething yesterday on an old Asus board with a 3112 chipset.

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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    Quote Originally Posted by Skinleech View Post
    Have you grabbed the latest Vista drivers for the card from Silicon Image's website, then loaded those drivers when prompted?

    Vista will see the card & drive, but can't interface with it. I just did the samething yesterday on an old Asus board with a 3112 chipset.
    Yea I grabbed them yesterday and put them on a usb stick. What do you mean can't interface with? On mine even after selecting the drivers (it's the driver 3x12 - x86 - 1.3.68.2 with SI3112.inf) it couldn't see the hard disk, and threw problems at me when selecting the driver anyway. It was the same driver on the website that came on the CD and it didn't specify vista, just 'windows'. I don't know whether it's an incompatibility or what...

    Anyway, after trying the XP install again and using the non quick format option it seems to be working so far touch wood.
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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    erm, looks like you probably downloaded hte wrong version!

    http://www.siliconimage.com/support/...tid=2&osid=10&

    make sure you get the vista version, for the right bittage.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    erm, looks like you probably downloaded hte wrong version!

    http://www.siliconimage.com/support/...tid=2&osid=10&

    make sure you get the vista version, for the right bittage.
    That's exactly the version I got I'm pretty sure it's the same for XP / Vista. The link is purple as it's already been visited.

    * SiI3x12 32-bit Windows BASE Driver 1.3.68.2 - like the version I pointed out earlier.

    Code:
    29/09/2008  17:57    <DIR>          .
    29/09/2008  17:57    <DIR>          ..
    23/01/2007  18:02            52,092 readme.htm
    22/05/2007  22:23            14,667 si3112.cat
    13/04/2007  10:55            18,095 SI3112.inf
    26/01/2007  13:55            69,168 Si3112.sys
    26/01/2007  13:55            83,760 SilSupp.cpl
    26/01/2007  13:55            12,464 SiRemFil.sys
    26/01/2007  13:55            17,328 SiWinAcc.sys
    13/04/2007  10:58             4,593 TxtSetup.oem
                   9 File(s)        272,167 bytes
                   2 Dir(s)   5,509,046,272 bytes free
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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    Still no joy, it copied the files but then on first boot it just said it was missing files. Ubuntu going on now...

    edit: ubuntu is even more hopeless than both windows together. It doesn't even load off the CD correctly, just states some error and dumps me at the CLI telling me to type help for commands.

    Last edited by Dreaming; 29-09-2008 at 07:53 PM.
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    Re: Need some help installing windows onto drive with Sil3512 card

    k got that working finally linux actually does work I just told it to install and beared through the errors. It is extremely sluggish but I think maybe it will speed up in a bit when it's been configured properly. Main issue I'm having now is the driver problem.

    saying basically this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/196285

    4. Received the following from lshw -class network
    chasbrou@chasbrou-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -class network
    [sudo] password for chasbrou:
    *-network UNCLAIMED
    description: Ethernet controller
    product: RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 9
    bus info: pci@0000:06:09.0
    version: 20
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
    configuration: latency=0 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32

    edit: after too long trying to get it to work I reckon I'm going to try and get it working with windows again tomorrow.
    Last edited by Dreaming; 29-09-2008 at 11:01 PM.
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